Ms. Merriam began working in the inter-faith movement in the late 1990s when she served as Vice Chair of the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held at the United Nation in New York in the year 2000.  She subsequently convened a meeting of women religious and spiritual...

Rabbi David Rosen was the Chief Rabbi of Ireland and the senior rabbi of the largest Orthodox Jewish Congregation in South Africa. Today he is one of the most prominent Jewish leaders in the field of interreligious affairs. Career Summary: AJC‘s International Director of Interreligious Affairs and...

A. Elga J. Sarapung was born in Gorontalo, on August 1st, 1961. She studied theology, and specialized in the field of Missiology and Ecumenical (Oikoumene), which was developed specifically for the study of "Interfaith Relations and Dialogue", as well as "Religions for Justice and Peace&...

Norman Solomon was born in Cardiff, and was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He has served as rabbi to Orthodox congregations in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Birmingham. Currently, he is a member of Wolfson College of Oxford University and of the Oxford University Teaching and Resea...

Afra Jalabi is a Syrian-Canadian writer whose interests revolve around religion, language and nonviolence. Jalabi is currently the vice-president of Tastakel Organization and a board member at both the Day After Association and Baytna--two NOGs. She was a signatory of the Damascus Declaration and ...

Ambassador Mohammad Alami Musa is Head of Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies (SRP) Programme. He is concurrently Singapore’s non-resident Ambassador to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria. Amb Alami held the appointment of President of MUIS Council (Islamic Religiou...

Rev. Dr. Antje Jackelén is the archbishop of Uppsala and primate of the Church of Sweden (Lutheran). She was previously the bishop of the Lund Diocese of the Church of Sweden as well as associate professor of systematic theology and director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science at the Luthe...

Margot Käßmann was born in Marburg in 1958. She studied theology and was the Secretary General of the German Protestant Kirchentag. From 1999 to 2010 she was Regional Bishop of the Protestant-Lutheran Church of Hanover, and the 2009/2010 Council President of the Evangelical Church in Germany. From...

The Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave was ordained Deacon in 1982 and Priest in 1983 in the Dicoese of Peterborough. In 2004, he became Archdeacon of Southwark after over 20 years of ministerial work in Leicestershire and Japan. Before this, he was the Inter Faith Relations Adviser to the Archbishop...

Dr. Carmen Asiaín Pereira is a senator in the Parliament of Uruguay and former president of the Latin American Consortium for Religious Liberty. Dr. Asiain is also a professor of Law and Religion at the University of Montevideo and a professor of Law and Religion at the Facultad de Teología del Ur...